Sometimes we need to just write for ourselves You would think that during such apocalyptic times that the […]
Category Archive: Poetry
Rejection is not what you think it is A writer’s life is paved with thorns. The sooner you realize […]
In December last year, my poem “You Grew Out Of The Wood was shortlisted for the Wyndham Writing […]
She’d been buried under a stack of newspapers for years and only emerged for coffee and banana bread […]
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Seven tiny outfits for your infant self pegged to the line […]
The earth heals at night like a wounded animal scratching out its den. The earth heals at night, […]
There are a lot of writers out there who take their poetry very, very seriously. They study tone, lineation, verse and structure. They analyze rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and the many conventions of Western poetry. And while it’s important for a writer to understand the function of line-breaks, alliteration and form, etc – poetry remains one of the few forms of prose where there are no rules. Or rather rules that must be learned in order to be broken.
